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Horrific attack

4:45pm Tuesday 22nd December 2009 in Your Argus

While I have no wish to de-value the pleasure Val Staveley (Letters, December 21) receives from her visiting foxes, I wonder if she would have had similar feelings for these creatures had she been available to clear up the carnage of my beautiful eight laying hens that were massacred in my urban back garden last week.

All were beheaded and torn to pieces for sheer pleasure, not food.

I say bring back the huntsmen to control these brutal pests.

Stephen Lockwood, Meadow Way, Westergate, Chichester

Comments(5)

fascinator says...
9:09am Wed 23 Dec 09

Foxes don't kill for pleasure - under normal (wild) circumstances they will kill what they can and bury what they can't quickly eat. You just provided them with an opportunity too good to miss.

But - hey - lets return to a less civilised time and make a sport out of killing wild animals. I had hoped that fox hunting would have become a thing of the past by now - like **** fighting and bear baiting.

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nebhunting says...
12:22pm Wed 23 Dec 09

The Fox has all the nerve in the world as one had audacity to visit our Hunt Kennels, attack the chicken coup and killed most of the chickens inside, all this being about 20 yards from where the Hounds were resting.

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cheezburger says...
1:59pm Wed 23 Dec 09

What an idiot you are. The hunstmen are the real brutal pests.

Fox hunting is a very bad way of controlling them anyway, its only real purpose is to entertain blood-thirsty toffs and their serfs like yourself.

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puddingandpi says...
7:00pm Wed 23 Dec 09

It's an animal, it can't reason, it doesn't kill for pleasure & maybe they're not sly & brave. Maybe they're stupid & that's why they pop into your kennels.
I'm sorry about the chickens, but you really have to secure your hens against foxes. You can't blame them for being foxes & say they should be killed because of that.

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dave1998 says...
8:44am Thu 24 Dec 09

I agree that this guy is an idiot. He gets a few hens (which he probably thinks makes him more middle class) then expects the world to change to suit him. Just buy your eggs in a shop instead of crying like a baby when things don't work!!!

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